Ryan MacMillan

“Our goal is simple”, declare the boys over at truththroughaction.org, thereby raising the possibility that they are, too. But we carp needlessly, for their goal is a lofty one:
to engage young voters in an innovative and cost effective way, providing them with the sort of entertaining content that reminds them that being Democrat is “cool,” [...]

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Now that Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold in the American political commentariat: it was social media wot won it for Barack. To wit, it was the Obama campaign’s superior leveraging of the tools and processes of social media communications which allowed him to overcome [...]

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Several recent posts on this blog have criticised the (lack of) social media creativity in UK politics. Many comparisons have been made between ours and the slick US online political campaigns. Turn now, if you will, to the liberal land of the Danes for how to really do it well.
Danish PM, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is, [...]

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I’ve been chasing a conversation around the internet which has careered off from an article by Anthony Barnett on Comment is Free. Following Gordon Brown’s plans for reforming the Governance of Britain, and the Justice Minister Michael Wills’s further suggestion of taking this debate online, Barnett and his chums at openDemocracy want to have a [...]

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I had the pleasure of hearing Charles Leadbeater speak about the basis of his new book, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity, at the British Library last night. Now, the title of the event was “We Think: Will the Web be Good for Us?” which has a foreboding ring to it, doesn’t it?
Charles suggested [...]

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